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Jul 20, 2011

Mojave

I'm always in fear of making this upgrade because of potential conflicts with DAW Plug-ins and drivers. I would suppose it means checking every single manufacture to find out if all is well with them first correct? Or is this a surface type upgrade, not going to effect applications like those I'm referring to?

Yes! I've just been checking out the compatibility charts made available by Apogee and the info on the Propellerheads, Native Instruments, Spectrasonics websites too.

This upgrade will affect your DAW and 3rd party plugins and drivers. So make sure to wait and consult the sites of 3rd party software websites... and as a general rule never update OS:
1. without Backing up your important data
2. without Cloning your system drive first
3. mid-project
4. until you know that all audio interfaces, 3rd party plugins and software support the new OS
5. on the first day of release ;-)
6. on your main studio machine. Use a second Mac as a test machine!

This might sound over cautionary... but it can save a lot of heart ache!

That is how I figured it would be. I also see this upgrade to appeal more for lap top users, It really creates great surface control options, not that unfamiliar to iPhone type use and also iPad. It seems like Apple is always focused on the user and not just the fastest greatest computer like I have seen in many years of computer progress, mainly in the PC world. Each year of PC upgrades meant faster chips, but less user benefits for the cost. Apple brings massive user benefits and there is literally no hardware cost involved. Pretty cool if you look back at how it used to be.